On Whatever I'm talking about the name change of Twitter to X, what it means to me and others, and why I'm going to be on that site much less from now on.

(Also it means Mastodon will be a beneficiary, as probably a lot of things that would previously had been tweets will now become toots. Although I will have to remember to put a hashtag on the political stuff, I sometimes forget that)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

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@scalzi
Thanks for the wan smile with: "Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg." But as you and @Catvalente have both noted, it's not the first set of broken online communities and may not be the last. We /shall/ adapt and recreate new ones as has been done the last 40 years since local BBS groups. 👊